Charity and Mutual Aid in Europe and North America since 1800

Edited by Bernard Harris, Paul Bridgen

International in perspective, the essays in this volume are primarily concerned with two facets of the mixed economy of welfare--charity and mutual aid. Emphasizing the close...

Published December 18th 2007 by Routledge.

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Inclusions and Exclusions in European Societies

Edited by Martin Kohli, Alison Woodward

European social development over the last century has been characterized by an increasing inclusiveness of people into the ever-larger collectives of the nation state, the...

Published December 1st 2007 by Routledge.

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Handbook of Quality of Life in the Enlarged European Union

Edited by Jens Alber, Tony Fahey, Chiara Saraceno

Recent enlargement to the east made the European Union a more diverse social space and brought it into more direct contact with the social and...

Published November 29th 2007 by Routledge.

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Family Life and Youth Offending

Home is Where the Hurt is

By Raymond Arthur

The contention that young people commit offences due to inadequate parenting and parental difficulties has been an abiding feature of the debates on juvenile offending....

Published September 21st 2006 by Routledge.

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THE BATTLE AGAINST POVERTY

By B RODGERS

Published December 1st 2005 by Routledge.

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Medical Sociology

Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare

Edited by Graham Scambler

Medical sociology was first recognizable as a distinct area of study in the 1950s and is now probably the largest specialized area of sociology. This...

Published November 25th 2004 by Routledge.

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Child Welfare

Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare

Edited by Nick Frost

This collection focuses on child welfare in its specific sense: welfare and social interventions with children and young people undertaken by State bodies or NGO's....

Published November 18th 2004 by Routledge.

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Self-care

Embodiment, Personal Autonomy and the Shaping of Health Consciousness

By Christopher Ziguras

This book examines the widespread cultural and political consequences of the proliferation of popular health advice. It provides a key theoretical contribution to the sociological...

Published November 20th 2003 by Routledge.

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Welfare and the State

Edited by Nicholas Deakin, Catherine Jones Finer, Bob Matthews

One of the most contested issues of the 20th century is that of welfare - how it should be available, to whom, on what terms...

Published November 6th 2003 by Routledge.

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An Evolutionary Approach to Social Welfare

By Christian Sartorius

While not evident immediately, social norms and values play a crucial role in the theory of social choice. In the first half of the twentieth...

Published October 16th 2003 by Routledge.

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